CIT's hotly anticipated Autumn Release is here, with Spartans, temples, mountains, Iron Maiden, and Sherlock Holmes Never let it be said that CIT don't cast their net wide for new coin subjects. As you can tell from the headline, this is another expansive look through history, nature, science, and the arts, using gold, silver, platinum and copper, [...]
Catching up with the New Zealand Mint's popular culture coin releases from October An overdue look at the New Zealand Mint's copious popular-culture output is what we have here, and it's another good mix of the many franchises they have in their repertoire. Including such giants as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, [...]
The Royal Mint launches new issues featuring Rome, Harry Potter, and childrens classic, The Snowman The Royal Mint has been very active of late, and we've covered most of the new issues, of course, but the market is busier than ever of late, so to aid a more complete coverage, we're going to be falling back [...]
The Royal Mint celebrates Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's splendid tomb a century ago Despite being a minor Pharaoh, Tutankhamun is probably the most famous of them all today. His father, Akhenaten, was a maverick who sought to upend the whole Egyptian way of life, and failed. The result, his nine-year-old son, Tutankhamun, took the throne. [...]
The Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs' proof coin series jumps forward to King Edward VII for its fourth release The 'British Monarchs Collection' continues to power on at a brisk speed with the fourth issue in 2022, in what will be a 21-coin, 5-year programme. Focusing on the reproduction of classic coin designs from history, from the Tudor, [...]
The Mint of Gdańsk launched its new seven-year, 56-coin programme featuring the Polish football legend Robert Lewandowski, just a few months ago, with a pair of silver coins, and the promise of a more varied selection moving forward. That promise is now bearing results, with a new design adorning a coin available in both one-ounce, and tenth-ounce formats. [...]
The Royal Mint commemorates a century of the BBC - from news of the empire, to the Teletubbies The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an absolute giant in the media world. Not only the oldest national broadcaster in the world, and the biggest, it's also likely the most recognised wherever you are in the world. Established [...]
Bullion round-up 10: Elephants, Samurai, Moggies, Sailing Ships, and the jelly of doom... I say this every time, but I always underestimate how long these bullion round-ups take to put together. This one was due out yesterday, but here we are anyway. It's a great selection, but doesn't cover everything we know about. The Royal Mint's new [...]
Scottsdale Mint's Congo Silverback returns for an eighth rampage through the bullion and proof coin markets A perennial fixture in the bullion calendar since 2015, the Congo Silverback is one of Scottsdale Mint's core series. Like the Perth Mint's many bullion ranges, the Silverback has a design that changes every year, generating fresh interest with [...]
Liopleurodon first gained fame with its depiction in the smash-hit BBC documentary series, Walking With Dinosaurs. Here, it was a supergiant marine reptile, casually hunting plesiosaurs like they were light snacks. Brought to life via a flawed analysis of the fossil evidence, the truth is, it was far smaller than the 25 m long, 100+ tonne behemoth they'd created. [...]
